Contrasting Bridgford Foods (NASDAQ:BRID) & BellRing Brands (NYSE:BRBR)

BellRing Brands (NYSE:BRBR) and Bridgford Foods (NASDAQ:BRID) are both consumer staples companies, but which is the better business? We will contrast the two businesses based on the strength of their valuation, dividends, analyst recommendations, risk, institutional ownership, profitability and earnings.

Analyst Recommendations

This is a breakdown of recent ratings for BellRing Brands and Bridgford Foods, as provided by MarketBeat.com.

	Sell Ratings	Hold Ratings	Buy Ratings	Strong Buy Ratings	Rating Score
BellRing Brands	1	6	11	0	2.56
Bridgford Foods	1	0	0	0	1.00

BellRing Brands currently has a consensus target price of $42.53, indicating a potential upside of 36.64%. Given BellRing Brands’ stronger consensus rating and higher possible upside, equities research analysts clearly believe BellRing Brands is more favorable than Bridgford Foods.

Institutional and Insider Ownership

95.0% of BellRing Brands shares are held by institutional investors. Comparatively, 4.7% of Bridgford Foods shares are held by institutional investors. 1.1% of BellRing Brands shares are held by insiders. Comparatively, 80.7% of Bridgford Foods shares are held by insiders. Strong institutional ownership is an indication that large money managers, endowments and hedge funds believe a company is poised for long-term growth.

Volatility and Risk

BellRing Brands has a beta of 0.67, meaning that its stock price is 33% less volatile than the S&P 500. Comparatively, Bridgford Foods has a beta of -0.25, meaning that its stock price is 125% less volatile than the S&P 500.

Valuation & Earnings

This table compares BellRing Brands and Bridgford Foods”s gross revenue, earnings per share (EPS) and valuation.

	Gross Revenue	Price/Sales Ratio	Net Income	Earnings Per Share	Price/Earnings Ratio
BellRing Brands	$2.32 billion	1.61	$216.20 million	$1.68	18.53
Bridgford Foods	$223.65 million	0.31	-$3.38 million	($0.80)	-9.66

BellRing Brands has higher revenue and earnings than Bridgford Foods. Bridgford Foods is trading at a lower price-to-earnings ratio than BellRing Brands, indicating that it is currently the more affordable of the two stocks.

Profitability

This table compares BellRing Brands and Bridgford Foods’ net margins, return on equity and return on assets.

	Net Margins	Return on Equity	Return on Assets
BellRing Brands	9.33%	-95.87%	29.63%
Bridgford Foods	-3.19%	-5.81%	-4.72%

Summary

BellRing Brands beats Bridgford Foods on 12 of the 14 factors compared between the two stocks.

About BellRing Brands

BellRing Brands, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides various nutrition products in the United States. The company offers ready-to-drink (RTD) protein shakes, other RTD beverages, powders, nutrition bars, and other products primarily under the Premier Protein and Dymatize brands. It distributes its products through club, food, drug, mass, eCommerce, specialty, and convenience channels. BellRing Brands, Inc. was incorporated in 2019 and is headquartered in Saint Louis, Missouri.

About Bridgford Foods

Bridgford Foods Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures, markets, and distributes frozen and snack food products in the United States. It operates in two segments, Frozen Food Products and Snack Food Products. The company offers biscuits, bread dough items, roll dough items, and dry sausage and beef jerky products, as well as ready to eat sandwiches and non-refrigerated snack food products. It provides frozen food products to food service and retail customers through wholesalers, cooperatives, and distributors; and snack food items to supermarkets, mass merchandise, and convenience retail stores through customer-owned distribution centers, as well as a direct store delivery network. The company was founded in 1932 and is headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Bridgford Foods Corporation operates as a subsidiary of Bridgford Industries Incorporated.